Tag: motion and spatialization

this refers to the illusion of motion in the perception of sound in space often achieved electronically by the use of multiple discrete channels of sound. it also includes the acoustical perception of sound sources in motion or the static placement at multiple locations within a performance venue. the terms antiphony, surround sound, ambisonic sound, binaural, stereo, etc. are popular implementations of this phenomenon

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    SOUND

    A 42-page catalog documenting SOUND, the 2009 exhibition curated and designed by Gustavo Matamoros for The Bass Museum of Art.

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    Untitled: Social Commentary

    An eight-channel sound installation in which found performances of works by Bach, Corelli and Gesualdo move, overlap and contradict one another, revealing differences in interpretation, tuning, recording and acoustics.

  • Dusk over water and wetlands in Everglades National Park during Gustavo Matamoros’s 2013 A.I.R.I.E. residency.

    Everglades: Applied Universal Force

    Drawn from field recordings made throughout Everglades National Park, this 30-channel work assembles overlapping habitats of wildlife, weather and environmental sound. Dedicated to Charles Recher, it gives the Everglades the FUÁ—the extra force.

  • Black-and-white film still showing sparks flying from a rotary grinder in Ricardo Matamoros’s visual interpretation of String Solo.

    String Solo

    A vibration captured directly from a single piano wire becomes an enveloping eight-channel work. Recorded in one continuous action around 2005, String Solo was spatially orchestrated for Audiotheque 2.0 in 2018 and dedicated to Vito Acconci.

  • Black-and-white portrait of composer and Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros resting her head on one hand.

    Eighty Five Audible Moments for Pauline Oliveros

    Created from 85 audibles drawn from a lifelong archive and arranged within 85 seconds, this noise melody was dedicated to Pauline Oliveros. Its later spatial realizations give each audible its own position or movement while preserving the original composition.

  • Walk-through installation of suspended black-and-white square panels in a dark gallery, illuminated from above and fitted with small sound exciters.

    Memory Study
    for Surrounded Space
    MemoryLab

    A fifteen-point walk-through installation in which a Noise Melody assembled from archival fragments of Miami and Florida traveled across suspended sounding panels over a continuous environmental sound field.

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    Hextet for Stan Brakhage

    Rubbing sounds from a bass drum and precomposed organ chords travel through six channels, drawing shifting figures in the PAMM auditorium between films by Stan Brakhage.

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    Bats and Insects

    Bat calls, mosquito flight, and the resonances of a 200-foot passage continually rearrange their relationships within a sixteen-channel sound installation created for Florida Atlantic University.

  • Hand-drawn promotional image for Flow by PUNTO, combining the title with colorful abstract lines suggesting several gestures converging and separating.

    Flow

    An eight-channel Listening Gallery installation by PUNTO in which seven instrumental parts attempt to follow a melody known only to the performer who begins it, producing a spatial texture Gustavo Matamoros and Armando Rodriguez call “Scattered Unison.”

  • Black-and-gray concentric-circle graphic with white text reading “audiotheque 2.0” and a red band reading “gustavo matamoros.”

    Audiotheque

    Audiotheque ( 1.0 and 2.0 ) was housed inside my resident artist studio at ArtCenter South Florida ( now Oolite Arts ). Since 2012 and through 2018, it provided audiences of up to 50 people with intimate access to some of the most adventurous, unfiltered, high quality experiences of sound-based art and performance available anywhere